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Title: Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund ISBN: 0-380-97474-6 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just plain fun
Comment: Nylund's style is easy to devour, and his plot intricacies, broadly looping and carefully crafted, make Dry Water one of the better books I have read this year.
His smooth, believable descriptions of magic and fantasy add to what is, underneath it all, a well-spun down-to-earth story. Reading this book confirms the wisdom of truly thinking sideways.
Rating: 5
Summary: The biggest little book I've ever read
Comment: There is more compressed into this novel than in any other fantasy I've ever read, and I've been a fan for forty years. Poul Anderson's sf novel The Boat of a Million Years covers as broad a span of history, but in three times the pages and half the complexity. Charles de Lint and Terri Windling have defined contemporary mythic fiction for me, but I was even more bowled over by this book than I was by The Little Country. For creatively dramatizing the complexities in the mythic war of good and evil, Nylund rivals Clive Barker.
From the strength of his writing skill, imagery, and characterization, I believe I'll like Eric Nylund's other books too, although I don't expect the rest of them to be like this one; he does say that this is inspired by Roger Zelazny.
I don't have space in my small room for keeping many books, but this is a keeper. It's worth hunting down a used copy. Hope that the publishers wise up and reprint it.
Rating: 4
Summary: a compex fantasy about good intensions and their results
Comment: This is a very good novel. Basically, it could be called urban fantasy, allthough, it shouldn't be, considering that the action takes place in a small town in New Mexico.
So, it should be rural fantasy, I think.
This is not unlike the works of Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock.
So, if you like them - give "Dry water" a shot.
I found the main character sympathetic, allthough the romantic storyline was rather perfunctory. But the magic IS there in this novel, as are some interesting persons (not all of them alive), and the story of the antagonist, when told, rises interesting points.
This book has intelligence, controlled lightnings and one annoying, though good-natured ghost - what more do you need?
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Title: Pawn's Dream by Eric Nylund ISBN: 0380778874 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund ISBN: 0380785412 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ISBN: 0345457684 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: First Strike (Halo) by ERIC NYLUND ISBN: 0345467817 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund ISBN: 0380792923 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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